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Sacramento - another pest infestation turns up in California

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is once again preparing to battle the Oriental fruit fly, but at a different site.

Less than two months after an Oriental fruit fly infestation was declared to be eradicated in a Los Angeles suburb, another pocket of the pests has turned up near Sacramento, 400 miles north, a news release said.

Three of the insects were recently trapped in Elk Grove, southeast of Sacramento. The state agency will launch a treatment program covering more than seven square miles around the sites where the insects were trapped, the release said.